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Following Wagon Trails - 1890s: Willits

Hall Station, also known as Hall Siding, was located between the communities of Addie and Willets, N.C. This photographic postcard by Thomas H. Lindsey, entitled “Hall Station, Murphy R.R. 809,” was mentioned in Lindsey’s 1890 book, Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina. In 1897 the Sylva Sentinel (Sylva, N.C.) newspaper listed Hall as one of six railway stations in Jackson County, along with Balsam, Addie, Sylva, Dillsboro, and Wilmot. Those six stations may be seen on the 1896 “Map of North Carolina” included in the book North Carolina and Its Resources, published by N.C. Department of Agriculture.